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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Dance BFA

Pursuing a degree in Dance at UB provides a rigorous and immersive academic and artistic experience. Both the BA and BFA programs are designed to enhance your technical precision, artistic expression, and choreographic skills while deepening your understanding of dance as both a discipline and a profession.

This comprehensive program cultivates both technical excellence and creative innovation, preparing students for professional success in performance, choreography, and dance education. As part of a vibrant community of dedicated artists and scholars, you will refine your craft, broaden your artistic perspective, and develop the critical and practical skills necessary for a dynamic career in dance. Take the next step toward transforming your passion into a profession.

Visit the Dance academic program page for more information about the academic experience, who you will learn from, opportunities outside of class and what you can do with this degree.

Visit the Theatre and Dance department page for contact information, a brief overview of the department and the curricular options.

Admission Criteria

Admission for the Dance BFA major requires an audition. Please visit the Audition Registration to schedule an audition.

Major Requirements

Prerequisite Courses (13 credits)

Dance Core (70-78 credits)

Notes

*There may be course fee associated with Ballet and Modern technique courses.

Total Credits Required for Major: 83-91

Additional Degree Requirements Include:

  • Additional coursework to fulfill UB Curriculum requirements 
  • Elective courses as needed to complete the 123 credit hour total

Total Credits Required for Graduation: 123-125

Total Credit Hours Required represents the minimum credits needed to complete this program, and may vary based on a number of circumstances. This should not be used for financial aid purposes.

Academic Requirements

  • Audition
  • Minimum GPA of 2.000
  • Minimum GPA of 2.500 in the prerequisite courses
  • A minimum grade of C+ is necessary in all required courses.

Transfer Credit Policy

Students will be placed in the appropriate level of technique courses based on this evaluation, which may not correspond directly to student’s academic year. A core requirement of the dance program is the students’ practical work on and in productions. As performers, students need to be in residence at UB in order to complete degree requirements.

Curricular Plan

A Curricular Plan provides a roadmap for completing this academic program and the UB Curriculum  on time. Your actual plan may vary depending on point of entry to the university, course placement and/or waivers based on standardized test scores, earned alternative credit and/or college transfer credit.

All students are encouraged to use this plan in conjunction with other academic planning resources such as your academic advisor, the HUB Academic Advisement Report , My Planner and Path Finder tool.

In addition to following this course roadmap, all other admission and academic requirements of this major as listed in the Undergraduate Catalog must be met in order to successfully complete this degree.

YEAR 1

Fall Semester​​​​​

Spring Semester​​​​

YEAR 2

Fall Semester​​​​

Spring Semester​​​​

YEAR 3

Fall Semester​​​​

Spring Semester

YEAR 4

Fall Semester​​​​

Spring Semester​​​​​  

TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED: 125

Note: Some classes may count toward both a major and UB Curriculum requirement.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to do the following:

  • Choreograph reflective principles, processes, and structures to create original work that exhibits choreographic intent. 
  • Demonstrate technical proficiency, rhythmic acuity moving musically & dynamically.
  • Demonstrate and develop instructional strategies for teaching the concepts of coordination, use of weight, and directional focus.
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of historical facts and social and cultural issues in dance.
  • Examine, research and communicate theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to dance arts in relation to other arts.

 

(HEGIS: 10.08 DANCE, CIP: 50.0301 Dance, General)

 

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